It was the federal government’s first act to preserve a part of nature for the common good—a precursor of the National Park Service ... the photographs of Ansel Adams, who acknowledged ...

Ansel Adams ... A conference on the national parks is held in Washington, D.C. The Sierra Club sends Adams to lobby for the establishment of Kings Canyon as a national park.

"Like the granite face of Half Dome in his beloved Yosemite National Park," says exhibition curator Andy Grundberg, "Ansel Adams has achieved the status of an enduring monument in the public ...